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In 1983 Joe Elliott released to the press he received a scar over one of his eyes due to a fan throwing a coin from the crowd in Spain during a concert. It was his right eye and it wasn’t a coin.

Knowing Joe released this to the press I started yelling at him, “I want my nickel back!” after making up a new song. He would walk off smiling saying, “I know you do.”

I overheard someone ask why I said it was a nickel. I bought a souvenir at Rock City (see previous post “Legend Movie Origin”). The souvenir was only a nickel and in exchange received a wooden nickel back.

It was then later decided to choose band members who were Canadian citizens due to the Canadian football position called a Nickelback.

“‘Cause we all just wanna be big rockstarsAnd live in hilltop houses driving fifteen carsThe girls come easy and the drugs come cheapWe’ll all stay skinny ’cause we just won’t eatAnd we’ll hang out in the coolest barsIn the VIP with the movie starsEvery good gold digger’sGonna wind up thereEvery Playboy bunnyWith her bleach blond hair” – Rockstar performed by Nickelback

The song “Rockstar” was inspired by an article which Kurt Cobain showed me about Tom (Cruise) going to the Playboy Mansion to watch the Hagler-Hearns fight. I was making fun of him and others when I made up the song.

Amy Lee

Singer, songwriter, founder of the band Evanescence. I was discovered by Joe Elliott, lead singer of Def Leppard, and a yet unknown Kurt Cobain in May of '83.
I am not the lead singer Amy Lynn Hartzler.